Hello All!
I've been steeming on and off for a bit now.
I have dabbled in the use of bots and am not planning on stopping.
"When in Rome" as they say.
This post is to address whether it is bad form to flag the curation-comments left as sort of a receipt-of-service by bots employed by myself and numerous other authors.
Are we paying more but receiving less?
Of COURSE I know I don't have to use their services!
I would happily pay extra to have no spam on my posts.
I see the implicit commentary that accompanies services rendered as a sort of backdoor/hand-in-my-pocket sort of thing.
Let me explain it like this:
Let's say I'm a comedian. Like most comedians, I produce my own material, but, to get more eyes on it I may, from time to time(every time) employ the services of a promoter.
I pay the promoter, I get promoted, transaction done.
Now, let's say I am on stage doing my act, but, after every punchline the promoter comes up on stage and says "I made this possible! I gave him is time slot. He wouldn't be here without me"
Would this lower the value in the jokes I've said?
If I were to say address this on stage I would most certainly jeopardize the working relationship with the promoter, right?
So I present this question to the Steemiverse.
"Is it bad form to flag comments from bot services?"
And, should the owners of service bots really have this access?
We flag other sock puppet comments as they are generated by a machine and provide no real value to the steem platform. On the contrary, these unnecessary comments are taking value away from authors and return it back to the service bot, which is not creating content, just promoting.
I just had this idea:
After a hardfork- Authors could input a word or series of alphanumeric characters into their posts. When Steemians wish to leave comments on that post, like a customizable captcha, they must enter the unique word or set of characters before their comments will post. This could reduce unwanted spam if it were implemented in a way that does not hinder true human-to-human interaction.
Bots can subvert the captcha process, I know, but this is an idea, so take what resonates. A treasure hunt could also subvert the logical processes of programmed lifeforms. Like, enter the 5ifth word, the Zeventh Letter, and the month the author joined Steem. For this post this unique string would be "steeminglnovember". Commenters would have to enter this to validate their being human.
Is this complaining? I don't think so. A little maybe.
I feel I have added value to the Steemiverse by presenting this question.
Feel free to leave your genuine comments below.(Enter "steeminglnovemeber" for a like. All bots will be flagged.)
I'm gonna be using bots to up the value of this post because, as with the nature of Steem, it's all about the cycle of return.
Not all services leave a comment, so bidding on the ones that do and then flag and complain about it sounds really awful.
Perhaps, but that gives my power and sovereignty away to the system and that, I hope, is not what steem suggests.
Didn't I say, "Of COURSE I know I don't have to use their services!" Maybe that wasn't apart of your retort. Maybe it should be...
"Is it bad form to flag comments from bot services?"
aka
"Is it bad to be an a-hole unnecessarily?"
Yes. It is.
Steemit allows it, sure. It doesn't make you any less of an a-hole, though. If you're content with picking on services or people just because "the law lets you do it", well, I hope you grow out of it.
That's got nothing to do with what I said.
There are upvote bots that comment on your thread.
And there are upvote bots that DON'T comment on your thread.
Between the two options, you could go with the latter, but you don't.
You're picking the former and proceed to complain.
It doesn't make any sense.
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